A mother goes back to her parents once every year with all her children. That sounds like hardly the excuse for five days of city wide festivities. But that’s exactly what happens during Durga Puja in Kolkata. Because This is no ordinary mother. It’s the ten-armed mother goddess Durga coming back to visit her home with her four children. And Kolkata shuts down to welcome her back.
Sandip Roy: Unbearable Durga Puja
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The Godess returns
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2 of
Durga Puja drummers
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3 of
Durga in family home
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4 of
Durga Puja worshipers
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5 of
Pandal in Mall
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6 of
Large Pandal
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